Drama and the Adolescent Journey : Warm-Ups and Activities to Address Teen Issues

Linda Ruth Hodges Nelson
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Adolescence is a tough time for secondary students as well as for you, their teachers and support professionals. Being no longer a child, but not quite an adult, teens need a safe, enjoyable outlet that engages them and gives them a chance to talk ab ...

Teaching the Neglected "R" : Rethinking Writing Instruction in Secondary Classrooms

Thomas Newkirk
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To Compose : Teaching Writing in High School and College

Thomas Newkirk
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The essays in this volume study the writing process and show ways in which a classroom can be set up to treat students as writers. The central issues are: how writers find topics, how teachers respond to writing, how writing and literature can be com ...

The Book Club Companion : Fostering Strategic Readers in the Secondary Classroom

Cindy ODonnell-Allen
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The Book Club Companion "is a testament to what is possible when teachers think carefully about what they do. What we have here is not simply a guidebook to effective practice, but an experience in reflective practice. I hope that you find "The Book ...

The Great Word Catalogue : Fundamental Activities for Building Vocabulary

Susan Ohanian
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In her inimitable way, Susan Ohanian offers something new and different to use in the classroom. She brings language to life in this irresistible invitation to investigate vocabulary, to practice and play with words.

Living the Narrative Life : Stories as a Tool for Meaning Making

Gian S. Pagnucci
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The author demonstrates how narrative inquiry and analysis are valid and important parts of the English discipline, too much so to be lost to academic politicking.

Help America Read : A Handbook for Volunteers

Gay Su Pinnell
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Help America Read contains everything you would want a literacy volunteer to know about tutoring children.

True Stories : Guides for Writing from Your Life

Rebecca Rule
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Rule and Wheeler help new and experienced writers commit stories to paper.

Where's the Glitch? : How to Use Running Records with Older Readers, Grades 5-8 with CDROM

Mary Shea
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Many students find themselves struggling to learn from texts because glitches in their reading process block learning, cause frustration, and impede success. The source of these problems can be difficult to discern. "Where's the Glitch?" identifies w ...

Purposeful Writing : Genre Study in the Secondary Writing Workshop

Rebecca Bowers Sipe
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The strains on high school writing classrooms are endlessexternally imposed curriculum requirements, everincreasing expectations, high-stakes accountability assessments, and looming pressures for studying genres ranging from college-entrance essays t ...